Police search for motive in Nashville school attack
'I'm sad, I'm angry' - Nashville residents pay their respects
Angelica Casas
Reporting from Nashville
You don’t have to know a victim to mourn a mass shooting. When one hits your community, it’s hard not to be impacted.
Green Hills community members and residents from all over Nashville have been stopping by the Covenant School since late last night to leave behind flowers, messages and plush toys for the young victims at a makeshift memorial.
For some, like Mark, who lives in southern Nashville, it’s their first time ever visiting or passing by the school. He wishes it weren’t under these circumstances.
Summary
- Six people, three of them children, have been killed in a primary school shooting in Nashville
- The student victims have been identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all aged 9
- The adult victims are Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61
- The shooter was identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who was killed by police at the scene
- Police said Hale was transgender and used male pronouns on social media
- Bodycam footage of officers confronting the shooter has been released by the police
- They say more weapons have been recovered from Hale's home
- The Covenant School in Nashville is a private Christian school for students aged three to 11
- Since the shooting, President Joe Biden has renewed calls for Congress to take action on gun violence
Russian man detained after daughter’s anti-war drawings flees house arrest
Alexei Moskalyov convicted of discrediting armed forces on social media, after police investigated daughter’s drawings
A Russian man who was detained by police after his daughter drew anti-war pictures at school was sentenced on Tuesday to two years after being convicted of discrediting the armed force.
But in a dramatic turn of events, a court spokesperson said the man, Alexei Moskalyov, had fled house arrest overnight and his whereabouts were currently not known.
China increasing bailouts to Belt and Road partners: report
China has ramped up bailouts to countries struggling to repay their debts from infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, researchers found.
China has increasingly bailed out developing countries that have struggled to repay loans from the Belt and Road Initiative, according to a new report published on Tuesday.
Between 2008 and 2021, China issued $240 billion (€221.7 billion) in bailout loans to 22 countries, the report found. Around 80% of these rescue loans were issued after 2016.
The report was produced by researchers from the World Bank, the Harvard Kennedy School, US-based AidData and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany.
Macron government rejects union calls for 'mediation' on 10th day of strike action
The French government angered trade unions anew on Tuesday by abruptly rejecting their demands for a "pause" in pension reform plans to allow for a mediation period. Nearly two weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron forced an unpopular pension reform through parliament, hundreds of thousands are expected to take part in a 10th day of strikes and protests across France. Follow FRANCE 24's live coverage of the protests. All times are Paris time (GMT + 1).
- People took to the streets for a 10th day of strikes on Tuesday against government plans to reform the pension system, of which a proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is among the most controversial.
- Rolling strikes in the transport, aviation and energy sectors continued to disrupt travel. There were fewer teachers on strike than on previous protest days but student unions said the entrances to around 20 universities, including Sciences Po and parts of the Sorbonne in Paris, were blocked by protesters.
- Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne used Article 49.3 – known as the "nuclear option" – to push the pension reform through parliament without a vote on March 16, sparking widespread anger. Days later, the government narrowly survived two no-confidence votes.
Fire at migrant detention facility in Mexico kills 39 men
Another 29 people injured in deadly blaze at an immigration holding centre in Ciudad Juarez near the US border.
Dozens of people have been killed and injured after a fire broke out in an immigration detention facility in northern Mexico near the United States border.
The blaze – one of the deadliest incidents at an immigration lockup in the country’s history – occurred late Monday at a facility in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Images from the scene showed ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue around the smoke-covered facility with rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets.
Impossible choices
Life was a struggle for families of Ukrainians with disabilities before the war. It’s even harder now
By Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN
Photographs by Brendan Hoffman for CNN
Published March 28, 2023
As Ukraine marked a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Sasha Kharitonov spent his days lying in a bed in a corner of a small room that smelled of cigarettes and had Russian TV playing in the background.
He’s 17 years old but unable to move or eat on his own because of a severe form of cerebral palsy. He has frequent seizures and sometimes struggles to breathe.
Sasha requires round-the-clock care, but after his mother died three months ago no one was willing to take care of him. He continued to live with his disabled stepfather and step-grandmother Halyna Chernyshova, an 81-year-old woman who sometimes refers to him as “it” and who openly contemplated whether he “would be better off with his mom.”
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